Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-13 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 12. 11. 2014 16:22:00 je Martin Read napisal(a): On 12/11/14 14:20, Klistvud wrote: As a side note: once systemd is put in place, such problem-less and swift migration between desktop environments is just one of the many "Good Things Linux" going down the drain... Eh? I'm running XFCE *ju

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-12 Thread Martin Read
On 12/11/14 14:20, Klistvud wrote: As a side note: once systemd is put in place, such problem-less and swift migration between desktop environments is just one of the many "Good Things Linux" going down the drain... Eh? I'm running XFCE *just fine* on a jessie box with systemd as init, and if

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-12 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 02. 11. 2014 11:44:47 je Jyri J. Virkki napisal(a): I imagine, hopefully, that such a question is clearly ludicrous and obviously completely misses the point? I don't use Windows due to it having this or that bug! I don't use it because everything about it is dissonant with how my mind works

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-08 Thread golinux
On Sat, 11/8/14, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:16:45 -0500, golinux wrote: On Tue, 10/28/14, lee wrote: Subject: Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this... To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2014, 2:54 PM I am considering Funtoo. I would

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:16:45 -0500, golinux wrote: > On Tue, 10/28/14, lee wrote: > > Subject: Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this... > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2014, 2:54 > PM > > >> I am considering Funtoo. >>

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-05 Thread Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis
Στις 05-11-2014 03:44, Jyri J. Virkki έγραψε: ... As long as debian continues to enable everyone (systemd lovers and opponents) equally, everyone wins. that's not going to happen, IMHO. I don't think you are familiar with that email from systemd project leader at LKML back at 2010 [1], do y

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/5/2014 1:57 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 05 Nov 2014, Tanstaafl wrote: >> Not understanding this reference - so, you're saying you *can* perform >> a clean install of Jessie using sysvinit for the init system, just >> using a special command during the install process? > > Yes, FSVO "

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 05 Nov 2014, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 11/5/2014 1:35 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > > It's not an RC bug because it's easy to overcome with a late command. > > Not understanding this reference - so, you're saying you *can* perform > a clean install of Jessie using sysvinit for the init system, j

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-05 Thread Miles Fidelman
Tanstaafl wrote: On 11/5/2014 1:35 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: It's not an RC bug because it's easy to overcome with a late command. Not understanding this reference - so, you're saying you *can* perform a clean install of Jessie using sysvinit for the init system, just using a special command du

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-05 Thread Miles Fidelman
Don Armstrong wrote: Quoting myself from http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20141021184619.gq28...@teltox.donarmstrong.com with modifications. On Wed, 05 Nov 2014, Tanstaafl wrote: Personally I think the biggest issue with Jessie at present is the inability to do a clean install with sysvinit

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/5/2014 1:35 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > It's not an RC bug because it's easy to overcome with a late command. Not understanding this reference - so, you're saying you *can* perform a clean install of Jessie using sysvinit for the init system, just using a special command during the install p

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 05 Nov 2014, Tanstaafl wrote: > Sorry friend, like I said, I'm a new user. > > This is on the Debian devs. > > And if they choose NOT to do this, then ALL of the resulting (and > continuing/ongoing) systemd noise is ON THEM. > > PERIOD. If no one is willing to do the work, then the work

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-05 Thread Tanstaafl
Sorry friend, like I said, I'm a new user. This is on the Debian devs. And if they choose NOT to do this, then ALL of the resulting (and continuing/ongoing) systemd noise is ON THEM. PERIOD. Such a major change without classifying a bug like this as a SHOWSTOPPER speaks volumes. On 11/5/2014 1

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-05 Thread Don Armstrong
Quoting myself from http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20141021184619.gq28...@teltox.donarmstrong.com with modifications. On Wed, 05 Nov 2014, Tanstaafl wrote: > Personally I think the biggest issue with Jessie at present is the > inability to do a clean install with sysvinit rather than systemd

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-05 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 5 novembre 2014, 09.21:26 Jerry Stuckle a écrit : > On 11/5/2014 2:37 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > Discussions about possible forks are off-topic on debian-user, > > please re-read the list topic: > > From https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ : > >> Community assistance and sup

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-05 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Le Tue, 04 Nov 2014 22:00:12 -0500, Miles Fidelman a écrit : [...] > - SUSE seems to be moving down the systemd path, but with less > aggregation (e.g., systemd w/o journald) I personally didn't checked, but I can bet money on it if you want, that SLES 12 is doing _exactly_ what debian IS doin

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-05 Thread Miles Fidelman
Tanstaafl wrote: An opinion from a very new debian user... On 11/4/2014 5:09 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: http://debianfork.org/: "If systemd will be substituting sysvinit in Debian, we will fork the project and create a new distro. We hope this won't be necessary, but we are well prepared f

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-05 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 11/5/2014 2:37 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Le mardi, 4 novembre 2014, 21.13:36 Jerry Stuckle a écrit : >> Yes, but you seem to want to stifle any discussion of a possible fork. > > Discussions about possible forks are off-topic on debian-user, please > re-read the list topic: > >>From h

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-05 Thread Tanstaafl
An opinion from a very new debian user... On 11/4/2014 5:09 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > http://debianfork.org/: > > "If systemd will be substituting sysvinit in Debian, we will fork the > project and create a new distro. We hope this won't be necessary, but > we are well prepared for it." >

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-05 Thread Miles Fidelman
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Le mardi, 4 novembre 2014, 21.13:36 Jerry Stuckle a écrit : Yes, but you seem to want to stifle any discussion of a possible fork. Discussions about possible forks are off-topic on debian-user, please re-read the list topic: >From https://lists.debian.org/debian-use

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-05 Thread Miles Fidelman
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 05/11/14 14:00, Miles Fidelman wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: On 05/11/14 12:28, Miles Fidelman wrote: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Le mardi, 4 novembre 2014, 17.13:05 Miles Fidelman a écrit : Personally, the more this drags on, the more I'm convinced that those of us w

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 4 novembre 2014, 21.13:36 Jerry Stuckle a écrit : > Yes, but you seem to want to stifle any discussion of a possible fork. Discussions about possible forks are off-topic on debian-user, please re-read the list topic: >From https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ : > Community assistance

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 05/11/14 14:00, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 05/11/14 12:28, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Le mardi, 4 novembre 2014, 17.13:05 Miles Fidelman a écrit : > Personally, the more this drags on, the more I'm convinced > that those of us who

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Miles Fidelman
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 05/11/14 12:28, Miles Fidelman wrote: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Le mardi, 4 novembre 2014, 17.13:05 Miles Fidelman a écrit : Personally, the more this drags on, the more I'm convinced that those of us who deploy and manage servers would really benefit from a fork tha

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 05/11/14 12:28, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: >> Le mardi, 4 novembre 2014, 17.13:05 Miles Fidelman a écrit : >>> Personally, the more this drags on, the more I'm convinced that those >>> of us who deploy and manage servers would really benefit from a fork >>> that retains

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 11/4/2014 6:08 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > Le Tue, 04 Nov 2014 17:26:40 -0500, > Miles Fidelman a écrit : > >> Laurent Bigonville wrote: >>> Le Tue, 04 Nov 2014 16:57:20 -0500, >>> Jerry Stuckle a écrit : >>> On 11/4/2014 4:41 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > Le Tue, 04 Nov 2014 2

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Jyri J. Virkki
Once upon a time Laurent Bigonville wrote: > > Using the threat of forking to make people change their mind or change > a policy that has been decided by the project (the CTTE has been > delegated by the project the power to take such decisions) is bad. If The vote has barely started so nothing ha

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Miles Fidelman
Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2014 04 Nov 16:15 -0600, Miles Fidelman wrote: And beyond that, the level of interest in a fork might, hopefully, provide some useful feedback into the Debian decision making process. (And in turn, the response to such feedback, or lack thereof, might further inform in

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Miles Fidelman
Laurent Bigonville wrote: Le Tue, 04 Nov 2014 17:26:40 -0500, Miles Fidelman a écrit : Laurent Bigonville wrote: Le Tue, 04 Nov 2014 16:57:20 -0500, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 11/4/2014 4:41 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: Le Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:08:50 +0100, Peter Nieman a écrit : On 04/

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Miles Fidelman
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Le mardi, 4 novembre 2014, 17.13:05 Miles Fidelman a écrit : Personally, the more this drags on, the more I'm convinced that those of us who deploy and manage servers would really benefit from a fork that retains the "flavor" and philosophy of pre-systemd (and maybe p

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2014 04 Nov 16:15 -0600, Miles Fidelman wrote: > And beyond that, the level of interest in a fork might, hopefully, provide > some useful feedback into the Debian decision making process. (And in turn, > the response to such feedback, or lack thereof, might further inform > interest in a fork

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/11/14 14:56, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Marty wrote: >> On 11/01/2014 10:00 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On 02/11/14 12:19, Frank McCormick wrote: On 11/01/2014 08:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > For the purpose of education not to fan silly semantic pedantics. > > > On 02/1

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Le Tue, 04 Nov 2014 17:26:40 -0500, Miles Fidelman a écrit : > Laurent Bigonville wrote: > > Le Tue, 04 Nov 2014 16:57:20 -0500, > > Jerry Stuckle a écrit : > > > >> On 11/4/2014 4:41 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > >>> Le Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:08:50 +0100, > >>> Peter Nieman a écrit : > >>> > >>

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 4 novembre 2014, 17.13:05 Miles Fidelman a écrit : > Personally, the more this drags on, the more I'm convinced that those > of us who deploy and manage servers would really benefit from a fork > that retains the "flavor" and philosophy of pre-systemd (and maybe > pre-udev) Debian. Just.

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Miles Fidelman
Laurent Bigonville wrote: Le Tue, 04 Nov 2014 16:57:20 -0500, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 11/4/2014 4:41 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: Le Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:08:50 +0100, Peter Nieman a écrit : On 04/11/14 19:04, Laurent Bigonville wrote: Using the threat of forking to make people change t

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 11/4/2014 4:41 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: Le Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:08:50 +0100, Peter Nieman a écrit : On 04/11/14 19:04, Laurent Bigonville wrote: Using the threat of forking to make people change their mind I didn't threaten anybody. do not send 100 mails to ML'

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Le Tue, 04 Nov 2014 16:57:20 -0500, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : > On 11/4/2014 4:41 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > > Le Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:08:50 +0100, > > Peter Nieman a écrit : > > > >> On 04/11/14 19:04, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > >>> Using the threat of forking to make people change their mi

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 11/4/2014 4:41 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > Le Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:08:50 +0100, > Peter Nieman a écrit : > >> On 04/11/14 19:04, Laurent Bigonville wrote: >>> Using the threat of forking to make people change their mind >> >> I didn't threaten anybody. >> >>> do not send 100 mails to ML's >

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Le Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:08:50 +0100, Peter Nieman a écrit : > On 04/11/14 19:04, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > > Using the threat of forking to make people change their mind > > I didn't threaten anybody. > > > do not send 100 mails to ML's > > I didn't. I don't even know what "ML's" are. That w

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: Jerry Stuckle: But just the fact there are people who consider systemd to be > problematic enough to consider forking Debian should not be ignored. Denis Roio already has dyne:bolic. * http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/run-scripts-and

Re: Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Jerry Stuckle: But just the fact there are people who consider systemd to be > problematic enough to consider forking Debian should not be ignored. Denis Roio already has dyne:bolic. * http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/run-scripts-and-service-units-side-by-side.html

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Peter Nieman
On 04/11/14 19:04, Laurent Bigonville wrote: Using the threat of forking to make people change their mind I didn't threaten anybody. do not send 100 mails to ML's I didn't. I don't even know what "ML's" are. Now, my impression is that some people advocating things like Gnome and systemd h

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Miles Fidelman
lee wrote: John Hasler writes: do so and quit whining about how the DDs choose to expend their own time and resources. They *are* interested in what users want and need. Where does this interest show? For that matter, where does any interest in upstream show either - beyond vacuous stat

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread lee
John Hasler writes: > do so and quit whining about how the DDs choose to expend their own time > and resources. They *are* interested in what users want and need. Where does this interest show? -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Le Tue, 04 Nov 2014 15:22:32 +0100, Peter Nieman a écrit : > On 04/11/14 03:53, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > On 11/3/2014 8:36 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > > > >> I suppose it may be polemic to assert that forking debian and > >> setting up a new community would be labor-intensive, fractious, > >> divisiv

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread John Hasler
latin...@vcn.bc.ca writes: > Remember that Debian is not of the actual DDs or DMs. Debian is an organization of around 1000 DDs and DMs. If you are not one of them you are not part of Debian. However, the OS published by the Debian organization (also called Debian) is Free Software so you are fr

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread latincom
On Tuesday 04 November 2014 14:22:32 Peter Nieman wrote: > And to the people who have no problem with the way things are going > right now I would say: there's a perfect OS for you already, and it's > called Microsoft Windows 7. And for you lot there is Linux From Scratch. Lisi The question is:

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Le Tue, 04 Nov 2014 01:29:52 +, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard a écrit : > Laurent Bigonville: > > The systemd umbrella project is made of 10+ different executables > > that have all a specific scope (systemd PID1 used to manage the > > life cycles of the daemons, systemd-logind manage the user

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 04 November 2014 14:22:32 Peter Nieman wrote: > And to the people who have no problem with the way things are going > right now I would say: there's a perfect OS for you already, and it's > called Microsoft Windows 7. And for you lot there is Linux From Scratch. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Miles Fidelman
Peter Nieman wrote: On 04/11/14 03:53, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 11/3/2014 8:36 PM, Joel Rees wrote: I suppose it may be polemic to assert that forking debian and setting up a new community would be labor-intensive, fractious, divisive, and general not a wise use of precious free/libre/open com

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Peter Nieman
On 04/11/14 03:53, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 11/3/2014 8:36 PM, Joel Rees wrote: I suppose it may be polemic to assert that forking debian and setting up a new community would be labor-intensive, fractious, divisive, and general not a wise use of precious free/libre/open community resources, in s

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-03 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 11/3/2014 8:36 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > I suppose it may be polemic to assert that forking debian and setting up > a new community would be labor-intensive, fractious, divisive, and > general not a wise use of precious free/libre/open community resources, > in short, "dumb". > But just the fact

Re: Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-03 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Laurent Bigonville: The systemd umbrella project is made of 10+ different executables > that have all a specific scope (systemd PID1 used to manage the life > cycles of the daemons, systemd-logind manage the user sessions, > systemd-journald a logging system,...) and that are all > communicatin

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-03 Thread Joel Rees
2014/11/04 0:54 "Peter Nieman" : > > On 03/11/14 01:18, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 2:46 AM, Peter Nieman wrote: >>> >>> On 02/11/14 16:45, Marty wrote: http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/ It should be required reading for any participant

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 02 nov 14, 10:45:11, Marty wrote: > > http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/ > > It should be required reading for any participant in a systemd thread. I agree. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and de

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-03 Thread Peter Nieman
On 03/11/14 01:18, Joel Rees wrote: On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 2:46 AM, Peter Nieman wrote: On 02/11/14 16:45, Marty wrote: http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/ It should be required reading for any participant in a systemd thread. Required reading because of what? In order to

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-02 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 2:46 AM, Peter Nieman wrote: > On 02/11/14 16:45, Marty wrote: >> >> http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/ >> >> It should be required reading for any participant in a systemd thread. > > > Required reading because of what? In order to learn what an arrogant a

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-02 Thread lee
The Wanderer writes: > On 11/01/2014 at 10:20 PM, lee wrote: > >> Steve McIntyre writes: >> >>> Miles Fidelman wrote: > Right. This sounds more and more like "we're going to rewrite the rules, and if you don't like it, we're taking our ball and going home." >>> >>> Various peop

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-02 Thread Marty
On 11/02/2014 12:46 PM, Peter Nieman wrote: On 02/11/14 16:45, Marty wrote: http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/ It should be required reading for any participant in a systemd thread. Required reading because of what? In order to learn what an arrogant and insulting pamphlet l

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-02 Thread Peter Nieman
On 02/11/14 16:45, Marty wrote: http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/ It should be required reading for any participant in a systemd thread. Required reading because of what? In order to learn what an arrogant and insulting pamphlet looks like? I doubt that using the word "dumb

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-02 Thread Curt
On 2014-11-02, lee wrote: > > Some people still have common sense and/or don't go along with > everything the car manufacturers and sales people are trying to sell > them. If the reception of what they make or try to sell frustrates the > manufacturers or sales people, perhaps they'd be happier t

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-02 Thread Marty
On 11/02/2014 05:17 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: I don't think we have universal agreement that systemd violates the (rather nebulous) (Well, engineering principles do tend to _appear_ nebulous, I suppose.) To a lot of "engineers" as well. :(

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-02 Thread Diogene Laerce
On 11/02/2014 11:44 AM, Jyri J. Virkki wrote: > Once upon a time Scott Ferguson wrote: >> I'm asking why people keep insisting that systemd is bad >> *because it's not the UNIX way*. > Looking at the big picture: Why are any of us here, using Linux in > general and debian specifically? There is n

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-02 Thread Jyri J. Virkki
Once upon a time Scott Ferguson wrote: > > I'm asking why people keep insisting that systemd is bad > *because it's not the UNIX way*. Looking at the big picture: Why are any of us here, using Linux in general and debian specifically? There is no shortage of major projects and industries working

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-02 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I don't think we have universal agreement that systemd > violates the (rather nebulous) (Well, engineering principles do tend to _appear_ nebulous, I suppose.) > UNIX philosophy, True. Kind of like there was a time when Newton's descript

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 01 nov 14, 19:40:15, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > I mean that Linus has been very vocal, of late, about not allowing code by > Kay Sievers, and several others, anywhere near the kernel. Good thing then that Kay Sievers is not submitting the code. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.o

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
I don't think we have universal agreement that systemd violates the (rather nebulous) UNIX philosophy, at least any more egregiously than the kernel, GNU, or many other key components of Debian. Nobody can rule with any particular authority on the matter, and one person's opinion is not worth more

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-02 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 11:57 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 11/01/2014 at 10:20 PM, lee wrote: > >> Steve McIntyre writes: >> >>> Miles Fidelman wrote: > Right. This sounds more and more like "we're going to rewrite the rules, and if you don't like it, we're taking our ball and goin

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Marty wrote: On 11/01/2014 10:00 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 02/11/14 12:19, Frank McCormick wrote: On 11/01/2014 08:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: For the purpose of education not to fan silly semantic pedantics. On 02/11/14 05:24, Miles Fidelman wrote: Second, we're not talking about vag

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/11/14 13:14, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 11/01/2014 10:00 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 02/11/14 12:19, Frank McCormick wrote: >>> On 11/01/2014 08:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: For the purpose of education not to fan silly semantic pedantics. On 02/11/14 05:24, Miles Fid

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/11/14 13:12, Marty wrote: > On 11/01/2014 10:00 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 02/11/14 12:19, Frank McCormick wrote: >>> On 11/01/2014 08:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: For the purpose of education not to fan silly semantic pedantics. On 02/11/14 05:24, Miles Fidelm

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread The Wanderer
On 11/01/2014 at 10:20 PM, lee wrote: > Steve McIntyre writes: > >> Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> Right. This sounds more and more like "we're going to rewrite >>> the rules, and if you don't like it, we're taking our ball and >>> going home." >> >> Various people have tried to explain how a bina

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread lee
Steve McIntyre writes: > Miles Fidelman wrote: >>Martin Read wrote: >> >>Right. This sounds more and more like "we're going to rewrite the >>rules, and if you don't like it, we're taking our ball and going home." > > Various people have tried to explain how a binary distribution like > Debian w

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 11/01/2014 10:00 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 02/11/14 12:19, Frank McCormick wrote: On 11/01/2014 08:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: For the purpose of education not to fan silly semantic pedantics. On 02/11/14 05:24, Miles Fidelman wrote: Second, we're not talking about vaguely "unixy" -

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Marty
On 11/01/2014 10:00 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 02/11/14 12:19, Frank McCormick wrote: On 11/01/2014 08:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: For the purpose of education not to fan silly semantic pedantics. On 02/11/14 05:24, Miles Fidelman wrote: Second, we're not talking about vaguely "unixy" -

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/11/14 12:19, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 11/01/2014 08:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> For the purpose of education not to fan silly semantic pedantics. >> >> >> On 02/11/14 05:24, Miles Fidelman wrote: Second, we're not talking about vaguely "unixy" - we're talking about a

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 11/01/2014 08:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: For the purpose of education not to fan silly semantic pedantics. On 02/11/14 05:24, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >Second, we're not talking about vaguely "unixy" - we're talking about a >well developed philosophy of designing things that dates back to

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
For the purpose of education not to fan silly semantic pedantics. On 02/11/14 05:24, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Second, we're not talking about vaguely "unixy" - we're talking about a > well developed philosophy of designing things that dates back to Ken > Thompson, et. al (c.f., "The UNIX Progr

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Le Sat, 01 Nov 2014 14:24:28 -0400, Miles Fidelman a écrit : > Laurent Bigonville wrote: > > Le Sat, 01 Nov 2014 07:56:30 -0400, > > Miles Fidelman a écrit : > > > >> Steve McIntyre wrote: > >>> Miles Fidelman wrote: > Martin Read wrote: > > On 01/11/14 01:53, lee wrote: > >> It doe

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 01 nov 14, 16:44:03, Miles Fidelman wrote: Andrei POPESCU wrote: Do you mean the dbus daemon? No, the systemd developers have other plans. https://lwn.net/Articles/580194/ Over Linus' dead body? http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgyNTQ Mmm, can't

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread The Wanderer
On 11/01/2014 at 05:24 PM, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis: > >> A quick search reveals the following. >> >> I've a software that use libuuid. Until now, the uuidd had the >> ability to start on-demand the uuidd if the later, quotting "... >> setuid to an unprivile

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 01 nov 14, 16:44:03, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >Do you mean the dbus daemon? No, the systemd developers have other > >plans. > >https://lwn.net/Articles/580194/ > > Over Linus' dead body? > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgyNTQ Mmm, can't find any

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 01.11.2014 22:17, schrieb Jonathan de Boyne Pollard: > Christian Seiler: >> Finally: Upstart also supports socket activation. It's not quite as > > powerful as systemd's, but is has enough features for this use case. > > I don't know the people developing util-linux, but I could imagine > >

Re: Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis: A quick search reveals the following. > > I've a software that use libuuid. Until now, the uuidd had the > ability to start on-demand the uuidd if the later, quotting "... > setuid to an unprivileged user (e.g. uuidd:uuidd)". > > After that commit, i'm forced to use sy

Re: Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Christian Seiler: Finally: Upstart also supports socket activation. It's not quite as > powerful as systemd's, but is has enough features for this use case. > I don't know the people developing util-linux, but I could imagine > them accepting a patch to also support Upstart-style socket > activ

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 01 nov 14, 14:24:28, Miles Fidelman wrote: Laurent Bigonville wrote: Le Sat, 01 Nov 2014 07:56:30 -0400, Miles Fidelman a écrit : Yeah... the Unix way... which systemd and it's pieces violate in so many ways. Surprisingly 10th of different executables talking to

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 01 nov 14, 14:24:28, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Laurent Bigonville wrote: > >Le Sat, 01 Nov 2014 07:56:30 -0400, > >Miles Fidelman a écrit : > >>> > >>Yeah... the Unix way... which systemd and it's pieces violate in so > >>many ways. > >Surprisingly 10th of different executables talking to eac

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Laurent Bigonville wrote: Le Sat, 01 Nov 2014 07:56:30 -0400, Miles Fidelman a écrit : Steve McIntyre wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Martin Read wrote: On 01/11/14 01:53, lee wrote: It doesn't need these code paths. The library doesn't do anything unless you do have the software actually ru

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Peter Nieman
On 01/11/14 17:58, Laurent Bigonville wrote: Surprisingly 10th of different executables talking to each other using a common IPC mechanism (dbus here) seems to be really "unixy" to me... And what are these 10s of different executables talking about behind my back? ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Le Sat, 01 Nov 2014 07:56:30 -0400, Miles Fidelman a écrit : > Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Miles Fidelman wrote: > >> Martin Read wrote: > >>> On 01/11/14 01:53, lee wrote: > It doesn't need these code paths. The library doesn't do > anything unless you do have the software actually runn

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Marty
On 11/01/2014 07:56 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Steve McIntyre wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Martin Read wrote: On 01/11/14 01:53, lee wrote: It doesn't need these code paths. The library doesn't do anything unless you do have the software actually running which the library makes useable --- at

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread John Hasler
lee wrote: > Then the software shouldn't depend on a library it doesn't need. You use programs every day that contain code paths to support features that you never use. Sometimes those paths are entirely inside the program itself. Sometimes some of them are in libraries. Sometimes some of those

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Steve McIntyre wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Martin Read wrote: On 01/11/14 01:53, lee wrote: It doesn't need these code paths. The library doesn't do anything unless you do have the software actually running which the library makes useable --- at least that's what was said. Of course, not al

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
Miles Fidelman wrote: >Martin Read wrote: >> On 01/11/14 01:53, lee wrote: >>> It doesn't need these code paths. The library doesn't do anything >>> unless you do have the software actually running which the library makes >>> useable --- at least that's what was said. >>> >>> Of course, not all ca

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/31/2014 at 09:53 PM, lee wrote: > Don Armstrong writes: > >> On Fri, 31 Oct 2014, lee wrote: >>> Then the software shouldn't depend on a library it doesn't need. >> >> It needs the code paths of the library in some cases, therefore it >> links with the library, therefore the library must

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Martin Read wrote: On 01/11/14 01:53, lee wrote: It doesn't need these code paths. The library doesn't do anything unless you do have the software actually running which the library makes useable --- at least that's what was said. Of course, not all cases are the same, yet in this case, the li

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Martin Read
On 01/11/14 01:53, lee wrote: It doesn't need these code paths. The library doesn't do anything unless you do have the software actually running which the library makes useable --- at least that's what was said. Of course, not all cases are the same, yet in this case, the library shouldn't be i

Re: bc menu files? (Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...)

2014-11-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 01 nov 14, 11:25:31, Joel Rees wrote: > > I take it there's a developer somewhere that has taken an active > dislike to debian menus and is deliberately trying to make everyone > hate them. (Especially considering the TC bug you mention above.) ... > Be careful when you see conspiracy. > L

Re: bc menu files? (Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...)

2014-10-31 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Carl Johnson wrote: > Joel Rees writes: > >> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Christian Seiler >> wrote: >>> I suspect XFCE4, like most DEs available, only parses XDG .desktop >>> files, and doesn't parse Debian's menu system. >> >> Yeah. That seems to be the c

Re: bc menu files? (Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...)

2014-10-31 Thread Carl Johnson
Joel Rees writes: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: >> I suspect XFCE4, like most DEs available, only parses XDG .desktop >> files, and doesn't parse Debian's menu system. > > Yeah. That seems to be the case. I asked about a similar issue and somebody told me how to cr

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